From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:35:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make reflog query '@{1219188291}' act as '@{2008/08/19 16:24:51}' Message-ID: <20080820193557.GB16626@blimp.local> In-Reply-To: <20080819234433.GJ24212@spearce.org> Shawn O. Pearce, Wed, Aug 20, 2008 01:44:33 +0200: > The value 1112911993 was chosen for the limit as it is the commit > timestamp for e83c516331 "Initial revision of "git" ...". Any > reflogs in existance should contain timestamps dated later than > the date Linus first stored Git into itself, as reflogs came about > quite a bit after that. Maybe I'm missing something, but aren't unsynchronized clocks a common thing in personal computing? Even maybe less common, but noticably frequent, the clocks with the date set way back in the past (by malice or accident)?